Posts Tagged ‘fat’

An etiquette conundrum will be solved next week, with the introduction of a new badge for women bus and train travellers. Up until now it has sometimes been impossible, without asking, to know whether to offer female passengers a seat. The big question: Pregnant? Or Fat?

Dawn Franklin, a 34-year-old size 8 from Bristol, admitted yesterday that her references to insecurity about the size of her bum were ‘less about womanly solidarity, and more about reminding my friends that there’s such a thing as self-control – or at the very least Weightwatchers.’